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Wednesday, December 30, 2009

Former Indonesian president, Abdurrahman Wahid was saying in 2005 of the Bali bombings:

"The orders to do this or that came from within our armed forces... There is not a single Islamic group ... that is not controlled by (Indonesian) intelligence." Indonesia's intelligence services are said to work closely with the CIA.

1. In 1945, at Princeton, in the USA, John von Neumann and other scientists discussed the idea of modifying weather.

Soviet harvests, for example, could be ruined by creating a drought.

2. The US military involved itself in research into climate and environmental warfare.

The US military spraying Agent Orange in Vietnam

3. Irving Langmuir and his team at General Electric had the idea of seeding clouds with particles, that would make raindrops. Langmuir had the support of the military.

4. The US military Military researced other ways of injecting materials into the atmosphere to alter weather.

5. In a 1955 Fortune magazine article, von Neumann explained that "Microscopic layers of coloured matter spread on an icy surface, or in the atmosphere above one, could inhibit the reflection-radiation process, melt the ice, and change the local climate."

He thought this might force humanity to take a new, global approach to its political problems.

6. In the early 1970s, the U.S. government spent more than twenty million dollars a year on weather modification research.

7. Beginning around 1961, Russian scientists speculated about altering the global climate by strewing dark dust or soot across the Arctic snow and ice. The soot would lessen reflection of sunlight and the air would get warmer.

In 1971 a group of American experts said that "deliberate measures to induce arctic sea ice melting might prove successful and might prove difficult to reverse should they have undesirable side effects."

8. A 1972 U.S. government rain-making operation in South Dakota was followed by a disastrous flood.

Vietnamese victims of Agent Orange

9. The US military used cloud-seeding over the Ho Chi Minh Trail, hoping to increase rainfall and bog down the North Vietnamese Army's supply line in mud.

10. For a few years in the early 1970s, new evidence and arguments led many scientists to suspect that a new ice age was approaching.

"Months before the end of World War II, an American intelligence agency launched a top-secret project aimed at devising ways to trigger massive earthquakes and tsunamis that would wreak havoc among enemy civilian populations, recently uncovered documents reveal."According to http://www.nzherald.co.nz/:"Top-secret wartime experiments were conducted off the coast of Auckland to perfect a tidal wave bomb, declassified files reveal."An Auckland University professor seconded to the Army set off a series of underwater explosions triggering mini-tidal waves at Whangaparaoa in 1944 and 1945."IS THERE A PROJECT TO TRIGGER EARTHQUAKES?

Tuesday, December 29, 2009

Al Qaeda, run by the CIA and its friends, announced on 28 December 2009 that they were behind the Christmas jet bomb plot.

The CIA said it provided Nigerian Abdul Abulbul with a 'device' but it had failed to detonate because it was not meant to.

A statement posted on CIA-Islamist websites said the attack was to help justify US intervention in Yemen.

The US hopes to counter Russian and Chinese influence in Yemen, and hopes to balkanise Saudi Arabia.

The CIA-Islamist website showed a picture of Abdul referring to him as Patsy al-Nigiri - the Nigerian patsy.

'With the cooperation of Israeli security firms in Amsterdam, he managed to penetrate all devices and modern advanced technology and security checkpoints in international airports bravely without fear of death,' said the website statement.

The 23-year-old has told the FBI he was tutored in terrorism while living for a month with a senior CIA commander in Yemen.

He is said to have warned that other young men are being trained there to advance the cause of US imperialism.

President Barack Obama said: 'We will continue to use every element of our national power to balkanise strategically important Moslem countries.'

In London, Home Secretary Alan Johnson said police were examining whether the son of one of Africa's richest men had been recruited as a patsy by MI5 or MI6 during three years studying engineering at University College London.

The Nigerian is reported to have 'crossed the radar' of MI5 while in the UK.

Abdul Abulbul was on a U.S. watch list, although it allowed him to travel on planes flying into the country.

Double agents and patsies ran the Gunpowder Plot

Famous Jewish journalist Melanie Phillips did not write the following:

So here we go again.

Another CIA-Mossad-MI6 terrorist plot, and yet another British connection.

How did Abdul Abulbul obtain a U.S. visa when he had been on an American watch-list of people with known terrorist connections?

But the deeper and more urgent issue for Britain concerns the key role Britain has once again played in the Pentagon's plans for world domination.

Abdul Abulbul, who claims to have been working for the CIA, was a student at a University in London for three years until 2008.

He was refused an entry visa to Britain earlier in 2009, but only because the institution at which he said he wanted to study turned out to be non-existent.

How, people might well ask, could such a radical have been educated in Britain without the authorities jumping on him?

Presumably he had been recruited by MI5 as a patsy.

Who can be surprised? After all, this is ' Londonistan' - the term coined by the French spooks back in the Nineties as they watched Britain become the central hub of CIA-Islamic terrorism in Europe.

CIA-Islamic extremist networks are still allowed to flourish in Britain, largely due to the governing class with its fascist and mafia agenda.

The courts are still refusing to deport terrorists who work for the security services.

London boasts the shameful reputation of the world's top money-laundry for CIA terrorism.

Yet the government refuses to outlaw Hizb ut-Tahrir.

The Government is funnelling money into extremist Islamist groups.

'Authentic' Islam is peaceful.

But the CIA plan is to weaken oil rich Moslem countries by promoting extremism and feudalism.

Who are the real bad guys?

The following was not written by the New York Times about 'the clash of civilisations':

It used to be the rogue state of Israel that was involved in a clash with liberals and democrats in the West.

Why was there a clash?

1. The Israelis had used terror to drive the Arabs off their land.

2. Some of the Israelis were religious fundamentalists with 'weird, outdated beliefs'.

But, certain clever people in the USA have managed to change the story.

Now the clash is supposed to be between the 'mad Moslems' on the one side and the western liberals and democrats on the other.

How has the Pentagon and the CIA, together with its friends in Israel, managed to stir a clash between Moslems and the West?

1. Has the CIA/Pentagon given its support to Islamic fundamentalists in countries such as Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Afghanistan?

2. Has the CIA/Pentagon/Mossad infiltrated fundamentalist Christianity and allied it to Zionism?

3. Have certain western politicians allowed large numbers of poorly educated Moslem illegal-immigrants to enter certain western countries?

4. Did the CIA/Pentagon recruit Osama bin Laden and people like Mohamed Atta?

5. Have some ignorant Moslems been recruited by certain security services to take part part in various dubious activities?

6. Has a 'Jewish influenced' media stirred up trouble between Christians and Moslems?

7. Have large numbers of Moslems allowed themselves to be brain-washed and manipulated?

It is our impression, after visiting half a dozen Moslem countries, that the great majority of Moslems are moderate, tolerant, hospitable people.

Moderation, tolerance and hospitality can evaporate under pressure.

The Palestinians have had their land stolen and their children murdered - hence the vote for Hamas. Most Palestinians are not fundamentalists!

The CIA gave Iran the dictatorship of the Shah and then the dictatorship of the Ayatollahs.

The Iraqis had the CIA agent Saddam Hussein imposed on them and then they had their country manipulated into a war against Iran. More recently, a relatively secular Iraq has become a more fundamentalist Iraq.

The CIA has helped keep pro-western governments in power in Morocco and Algeria. This has encouraged moderate Moslems to turn to fundamentalist politicians.

The Americans have kept the Saudi monarchy in power.

The CIA toppled Indonesia's Sukarno and Suharto.

If you watch the media carefully you begin to notice the pattern of brainwashing:

Photo of Professor Bernard Lewis by the Office of Communications, Princeton University.Lewis was a Professor at Princeton and he specialized in the history of Islam and the relationship between Islam and the West. Dick Cheney's friend, Bernard Lewis, was "perhaps the most significant intellectual influence behind the invasion of Iraq." (AEI's Weird Celebration)

Bernard Lewis helped to invent the West's new enemy, known as 'Islam'.

For the British, it was once the Jewish terrorists who were seen as being the enemy.

For the USA, it was once tiny Vietnam.Professor Bernard Lewis is Jewish and has worked for British intelligence.

The alternative view is that a country like Iraq is backward partly because of constant interference by countries such as Britain and the USA.

In his 1982 book Muslim Discovery of Europe, Lewis claims that "Crusader successes were due in no small part to Muslim weakness."

What Lewis does not make clear is that the Crusaders were barbarians and that they slaughtered innocent people wherever they went. The Fourth Crusade invaded and conquered and looted the Christian city of Constantinople.

Lewis opposes the idea that Israel is a racist country.

He argues that Moslems behaved badly in the Algerian civil war (1992–98) and in the Iran-Iraq War (1980–88).

In his essay "A License to Kill", Lewis wrote that he considered bin Laden's language as the "ideology of jihad".

Lewis is unlikely to tell us about the work the bin Ladens have done for the US government (The bin Laden Family)

Lewis has clashed with Edward W. Said, the Palestinian-American scholar who is a professor at Columbia University.

In Al-Ahram Weekly, Said claimed "Bernard Lewis hasn't set foot in the Middle East, in the Arab world, for at least 40 years.

"He knows something about Turkey, I'm told, but he knows nothing about the Arab world." ("Resources of hope,")

Edward Said considered that Lewis failed to see Moslems as a whole lot of different sorts of people.

In a 2002 interview with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Noam Chomsky claimed that Lewis failed to point out that "there's a perception in (the Middle east) that the United States supports status quo governments, which prevent democracy and development" and that this has to do with Middle East oil. (Hot Type Transcript)

Lewis supported the Iraq War.

In a 2006 article for the "Wall Street Journal" Lewis asserted that Iran was working on a nuclear weapon.

"He was over six feet tall and looked liked a typical American college student (he was enrolled at Princeton, but rarely went to classes)...

"Daood was a babe-magnet at Khyber Pass.

"He had a very young and pretty girlfriend, and also had a stunning 40-year-old mistress who sat alone in a booth waiting for him to get off work and cried bitter tears because of the sweet young thing." (A description of David Headley -Ratbang Diary: Well, I Am SHOCKED! )

According to family friends, David Headley's mother, Serrill Headley, was involved in heavy drinking and multiple sexual relationships, and David Headley engaged in the same behavior. (DOG EAT DOG - IN INDIA)

One theory about Chabad is that the Chabad Jews have been anti-Zionist and in favour of cooperation with Putin's Russia. The Eliyahoo Synagogue, the most important synagogue for Mumbai Jews, located near the Apollo port and the Hotel Taj Mahal, was untouched in the 2008 Mumbai attacks. It was built by the Sassoons. (The Riddle of Mumbai)

Another theory is that Chabad is being used by Mossad for terror attacks in India.

The Shah was becoming too powerful and was not cooperating on oil prices, heroin or nuclear power.

The CIA hoped that the Ayatollahs would keep Iran backward, feudal and easy to control.

Robert Dreyfuss, in 'Hostage to Khomeini', in 1975, wrote about Western 'plans for reversing the Shah’s industrialization program and for turning Iran into a model dark ages regime.' (The USA's alliance with Iran)

The CIA hoped that an Islamic Iran could be used against Soviet Russia, just as the Islamists in Afghanistan were used to weaken Soviet Russia.

Among the dead was a nephew of Mir Hossein Mousavi, Iran’s opposition leader.

Reportedly there has been "mobile telephone footage of ... jubilant demonstrators attacking riot police and Basij militiamen, protesters gleefully setting light to a police station, Basiji building and motorbikes being captured from the security forces, detained protesters being freed from a police van..."

According to Ali Ansari, Professor of Iranian Studies at the University of St Andrews: "No one can now doubt that change is coming."

On 27 December 2009, SELIG S. HARRISON, at the new York Times, wrote about Tehran's Biggest Fear.According to Harrison, the biggest threat to the ruling ayatollahs and generals in Iran comes from the separatist groups in Kurdish, Baluch, Azeri and Arab ethnic minority regions that make up some 44 percent of Iran's population.

During the Bush administration, the plan was "limited covert action carried out by proxy, in the case of the Baluch, through Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate or, I.S.I., and in the case of the Kurds by the C.I.A. in cooperation with Israel’s Mossad."

The C.I.A. provided weapons aid and training to the main Kurdish rebel group in Iran, according to U.S. journalists, Jon Lee Anderson and Seymour Hersh of the New Yorker and Borzou Daragahi of the Los Angeles Times.

The Arab separatists live in a province which produces 80 percent of Iran's crude oil revenue.

When du Cann was Chairman of Lonrho, he worked alongside board directors such as British MI6's Nicholas Elliot. 45

Du Cann was involved in Tradeswind, an arms trading company in which he was a director with Tiny Rowland of Lonrho and the Egyptian, Ashraf Marwan -known as 'Dr Death'. (Project Hammer Reloaded - Part 2)

George Palaondas left the following comments on our blog:

"I am the ex president, the founder, the owner and the only investor of one million pounds in the years 2000 / 01 of e-clear before Elias 'managed' without a penny to hold gradually the company and destroys me financially. You can be astonished to know his background..."I believe that in order to find out the real truth about the collapsed Flyglobespan and earlier collapses of other airlines related with E-Clear and to safe others to follow, the British Authorities have to examine the history of Elias Elia starting from the year 2000.

"They will be astonished to find out how the 'mastermind' Elias from a penniless person is handling now millions of money and the futures of companies. How he manages with big lies to come through every time?

"His tactics to achieve something are the same. He destroys somebody to climb up.

"The story is too long and it goes back in the year 2000.

"Lately in Cyprus Elias was threatened with a bomb exploded at his house in Nicosia for money owned for years.

"He arranged to start paying with monthly instalments.

"Lately also was 'forced' from 'special money collectors' to pay with monthly instalments 120,000 from the total of 200,000 owned to a person from the year 2002.

"If the Authorities take the matter seriously and dig deeply they will find many things. They must bare in mind that Elias is very talent to manipulate matters and unless he is forced to the limits he will not talk."

Nigerian plane terror: "How the accused, who had a valid US travel visa, boarded a flight in Lagos to Amsterdam, despite being on a database listing individuals of concern to the authorities, is a key question...

Saturday, December 26, 2009

Karkare, who was assassinated by forces linked to Hindu fascists and the CIA?

Rajiv Gandhi, Prime Minister of India, was assassinated in 1991.

The Justice Jain commission came across evidence that one suspect known as Chandraswami had links with the CIA and Mossad. (Jaipur; Dawood Ibrahim; the CIA)

There appears to be evidence that elements of the Indian police and security services helped carry out the 2008 Mumbai attacks and the murder of Maharashtra Anti Terror Squad chief Hemant Karkare.

Reportedly, Karkare had found out too much about who was really behind the terrorism in India.

According to "Who Killed Karkare? The Real Face Of Terrorism In India" by M Zeyaul Haque, former Maharashtra Inspector General of Police , the terrorists are Hindus with links to the government of India.

"The lane next to the Cama Hospital is a deserted one - it goes straight to the backyard of the Mumbai CID Headquarters.

"Anonymous sources in the Police have revealed that Karkare was taken there, by a joint team of anti-Karkare, pro-Hindutva (Hindu Nationalists) Mumbai Police officers, and Chota Rajan men (Gangsters)." Chotta Rajan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Chotta Rajan, who is the boss of a major crime syndicate based in India. He is a former key aide and lieutenant of Dawood Ibrahim, who reportedly has links to the CIA.

Hemant Karkare's wife, Kavita, has pointed out that her husband was confronting the attackers at Cama Hospital for 40 minutes and was waiting for extra police to arrive.

No extra help arrived.

Kavita alleges that after Hemant Karkare was shot, he was left injured and unattended for over 40 minutes and not taken to the hospital on time.

A news channel on 25 December 2009 presented video footage of Dinesh Lalji Gataar, the sweeper from JJ Hospital, saying he was allegedly offered Rs50,000 by police officers to give a statement that he had disposed of the jacket in the garbage bags.

Gataar said "I told them that I had not disposed of the jacket. I had kept it in a plastic bag in ward no 4."

According to the Gataar, he found the blood-stained jacket in a pile of medical waste in ward number 4.

He put the jacket in a black bag and put it in a corner of the ward. "I don’t know what happened to it after that", he said.

The assassination of top Italian politician Aldo Moro has been linked to the CIA.

"P2 had close connections with the CIA... They infiltrated the Red Brigades and carried out the murder of Aldo Moro in 1978. Colonel Oswald Le Winter of the CIA, who served as U.S. liaison officer with Gladio, has stated that the planning staff of the Red Brigades was made up of CIA intelligence agents."(aangirfan: Terror in Europe - Licio Gelli - Fascism - Gladio)

Allegedly the CIA will kill Americans, in order to promote the interests of the military-industrial complex.

1. The wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have lasted a surprisingly long time.

The US military "consistently refused to contain the forces they fought against ... and they always stopped fighting just short of victory...

"Continuing the Iraq and Afghan wars was more important than winning or ending them..."

2. "It is imperative that the still free citizens of the world understand that their own leaders consider the continuation of America’s wars more important than anything else in the world right now."

Many world leaders have a financial stake in America's wars.

"Nothing less can explain how all of them could sell-out their own people for the opportunity to sign deals with the United States, or worse, how they all cover up crimes committed by American agencies."

3. Why is India's government keeping in with the USA?

India "has more to gain from partnering with the United States than any other compromised nation...

"Beyond the scientific and economic partnership is the US/India military partnership.

The Indian intelligence service apparently helps create terror in India.

"If it is proven that the CIA has been running ops against the Indian government, then it is probable that Indians are part of the plan...

5. Will prosecuting David Headley for the Mumbai attack "implicate Indian players, possibly drawing-in RAW and the military?

"It is difficult to see how India can pursue real leads in their Mumbai investigation (other than their usual anti-Pakistani propaganda) without exposing their own responsibility in that false flag attack upon mostly Indian citizens."

6."A central element of the Mumbai attack was the elimination of Hemant Karkare, chief of the Mumbai Anti-Terrorist Squad and his associates, in order to cover-up the Indian hand in previous false-flag attacks against Muslims within India."

7. In the case of Headley, "Pakistani assets are developed to be used in a 'false flag' attack upon India by a consortium of agencies, which included Indian assets, intended to implicate Pakistan.

"In Pakistan, you have the same set-up with the TTP, the Pakistani Taliban, where Pakistanis are helping Indians and Americans by hurting other Pakistanis."

8. "The destabilizing mission planned for the sub-continent and all of Central Asia required active collaborators in every targeted state, to stage the attacks and battles required to incite war hysteria and to agitate for the revenge attacks that are necessary to fuel the war cycle against the 'Islamist' perpetrators of the terror attacks."

9. "By seducing India with economic incentives and promises of thermonuclear technology needed to overcome deficiencies in its arsenal, the United States has acquired a new economic lifeline, as well as the means to proceed with its own nuclear tests (through India), thereby ducking the political heat for the apparent hypocrisy of conducting nuclear tests while trying to eliminate nuclear arms.

"India is to serve as an American anchor, to help hold the subcontinent, while land is pacified ahead of the pipeline construction crews."

10. Indian reporters are now "suggesting the unthinkable"—that Headley is a US agent.

Friday, December 25, 2009

"I have looked at the case and the transcripts and was simply appalled at the echoes of classic wrongful convictions – including the same methodology and same personnel in terms of forensic scientists.

"I was quite shocked at how much of the case seemed blatantly wrong.

"It blazes out that this is a wrongful conviction...

"In my view the relatives have never had the true picture placed before them.

"They have not had their right under international law, where there has been an unnatural death, to have a proper, independent inquiry into what happened. It seems to me they have been cheated.

"In other cases where evidence has been questioned or demolished, it has been deemed appropriate to have far-reaching public inquiries. At the very least that is what the relatives of the victims of Lockerbie deserve."

Dr Swire, whose daughter Flora died in the bombing, said he was still waiting to hear from Gordon Brown after he and 10 other relatives delivered a letter to 10 Downing Street in October calling for a full public inquiry.

He wants the case to be dealt with in England as he says he has lost faith in the Scottish legal system.

"We are pestering him (Mr Brown) for a response," said Dr Swire. "The next step will be a legal letter from Gareth Peirce explaining that they need to provide an inquiry under the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR).

"There has been no public inquiry despite every Prime Minister in the past 21 years being asked for one. Lockerbie could have been prevented and we want to know why it wasn’t."

Lawyers say that under Article 2 of the ECHR, which pertains to the right to life, there is also the right to an inquiry into how that life was taken.

"Although there was a Fatal Accident Inquiry in Dumfries, this was then undermined by new evidence including the break-in at Heathrow airport," said Professor Robert Black, one of the architects of the original trial at Camp Zeist.

Lockerbie is linked to heroin and the CIA.

In a recent article in the London Review of Books, Ms Peirce wrote: "The devastation caused by the explosion of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, at the cost of 270 lives, deserved an investigation of utter integrity. Article 2 of the European Convention on Human Rights demands no less.

"Where there has been a death any inquiry must be independent, effective and subject to public scrutiny, to provide the basis for an attribution of responsibility and to initiate criminal proceedings where appropriate. But, in the absence of this, a number of the bereaved Lockerbie families have of necessity themselves become investigators, asking probing questions for two decades without receiving answers."

The Scottish Government has said it would back an inquiry but that it requires UK jurisdiction.

Father Pat Keegans, the priest in Lockerbie at the time of the bombing, had been invited to address the December 2009 memorial service at Arlington cemetery.

However, Frank Duggan, president of group Pan Am 103, took offence at the story published in the Herald and stopped the address going ahead.

"The suitcase belonging to Major McKee (a CIA operative flying back to the US to report on his concern that the couriering of drugs was being officially condoned...) was found to have had a hole cut in its side after the explosion.

"A second suitcase, opened by a Scottish farmer, contained packets of white powder which a local police officer told him was undoubtedly heroin."

2. "The integrity of the crime scene was violated ... outsiders were conducting a desperate search for wreckage that it was important for them to find and spirit away."

3. Some people had warnings.

"The staff of the American Embassy in Moscow, who usually travelled by Pan Am when they returned to the US for Christmas, used a different airline."

4. In 1989 The Sunday Times "stated categorically that the bombing had been carried out by the German PFLP-GC cell led by Dalkamoni under orders from Ahmad Jibril and with a bomb made by Khreesat."

5. The bomb was supposed to have been put onto a plane in Malta.

"If the intended target was an American aircraft, why risk a premature explosion triggered by the barometric switch by putting the suitcase on an Air Malta flight?

"The scientific underpinning necessary to support a counter-proposition was established during 1989 and 1990 and rested on two ‘discoveries’: a fragment of an entirely different type of timer in the remnant of a shirt collar and the matching of that fragment with the manufacturer’s prototype.

"This timer, it was argued, could, once set, keep a barometric switch from detonating for days.

6. "The centre of the Lockerbie investigation ... ceased to be Scotland: the CIA was in charge.

"Vincent Cannistraro had made his mark under Ronald Reagan, with a clandestine programme to destabilise the Libyan regime.

"He boasted that he ‘developed the policy towards Libya’ which culminated in the bombing of Gaddafi’s house in Tripoli in 1986 on the basis of intercept evidence later acknowledged to be false.

7. "Al-Megrahi’s conviction was in large part based on the evidence of scientists (Thomas Thurman and others) whose value as professional witnesses had been permanently and publicly demolished ten years before his trial..."

"Dr Köchler, the UN’s observer throughout the trial, recorded that Bollier had been ‘brusquely interrupted’ by the presiding judge when he attempted to raise the issue of the possible manipulation of the timer fragments.

"Could the MEBO board, or a part of one, have been planted in such a way that it could be conveniently ‘discovered’?

"After the trial, new evidence that would have been at the centre of al-Megrahi’s now abandoned appeal made this suggestion more credible: a Swiss electronics engineer called Ulrich Lumpert, formerly employed by Bollier’s firm, stated in an affidavit to Köchler that in 1989 he stole a ‘non-operational’ timing board from MEBO and handed it to ‘a person officially investigating in the Lockerbie case’.

"Bollier himself told Köchler that he was offered $4 million if he would connect the timer to Libya."

9. Tony Gauci, the Maltese shopkeeper, ... described al-Megrahi as ‘6’0’’’ (he was 5’8’’), ‘50 years old’ (he was 37), and ‘hefty’; said that he ‘had been to the shop before and after’, ‘had been there only once’; that he ‘saw him in a bar months later’; that he ‘will sign statement even though I don’t speak English’; that al-Megrahi ‘was similar but not identical’, ‘perhaps like him but not fully like him’, and, fatally for any identification of al-Megrahi in the first place, that he was ‘like the man in the Sunday Times’ (in other words, like Abu Talb, whose picture Gauci had initially identified).

"But Gauci’s evidence was needed and, reports suggest, handsomely rewarded. He apparently now lives in Australia, supported by millions of US dollars."

10. "That a court of three experienced judges convicted on such evidence and that an appeal court upheld the conviction is profoundly shocking.

11. "Köchler, the UN observer, reported finding the guilty verdict ‘incomprehensible’ in view of the court’s admission that Gauci’s identification was ‘not absolute’.

"We had come to believe that such an outcome, resting on invalid identification, was no longer possible.

"‘The guilty verdict’, Köchler wrote, was ‘arbitrary, even irrational’ with an ‘air of international power politics’ present ‘in the whole verdict’, which was ‘based on a series of highly problematic inferences’.

"He remarked on the withholding of ‘substantial information’(‘more or less openly exercised influence on the part of actors outside the judicial framework’)and on the very visible interference with the work of the Scottish prosecutors by US lawyers present in the well of the court.

"But most seriously, he set out his ‘suspicion that political considerations may have been overriding a strictly judicial evaluation of the case’...

" Dr Köchler recorded at its conclusion that it was ‘not fair’ and that it was not ‘conducted in an objective manner’, so that there were ‘many more questions and doubts at the end than the beginning’."